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Regarding voting, I think people who pay taxes should only be allowed to vote based on the place they pay their taxes in. It really annoys me that because I don
by yakubin 4y ago
Regarding voting, I think people who pay taxes should only be allowed to vote based on the place they pay their taxes in. It really annoys me that because I don't have a long-term address, I need to separately register where I live at a given time to vote in local elections, to have any say in what the money I pay in taxes is spent on, while there are many people who pay their taxes in one place and vote in another, where they haven't contributed a penny. Those things should be linked.
- dazc 4y agoWhat about people who don't pay tax because they don't earn enough. Should they be allowed to vote?
- ElevenLathe 4y agoThey still owe taxes, it's just that some years their obligation is $0. Edit: also there are things like fuel and sales tax that almost everyone owes, even if they don't have to pay income tax.
- yardstick 4y agoI don’t think I should be eligible to vote in every city, state or country I’ve paid sales taxes in over a year.
- vineyardmike 4y agoI travel a lot, I spend 50% of time at home in city A, 25% in city B and 25% in city C. Often when I travel it’s election time in some locality. Once in a while it’s an issue I have a strong opinion on, and I spent a lot of time in that city so I understand the issue. I’d love to be able to split my voting power by where I spend my time and offer 25% of a vote to city B’s impactful referendum. Instead I’m forced to pick only one city to call home even though I feel a sense of being at home in multiple places. I think voting should be about where you physically are and where you spend your time.